EveryDNS.net provided domain name system (DNS) services to the wikileaks.org domain name until 10PM EST, December 2, 2010, when such services were terminated. As with other users of the EveryDNS.net network, this service was provided for free. The termination of services was effected pursuant to, and in accordance with, the EveryDNS.net Acceptable Use Policy.

More specifically, the services were terminated for violation of the provision which states that "Member shall not interfere with another Member’s use and enjoyment of the Service or another entity’s use and enjoyment of similar services." The interference at issues arises from the fact that wikileaks.org has become the target of multiple distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks. These attacks have, and future attacks would, threaten the stability of the EveryDNS.net infrastructure, which enables access to almost 500,000 other websites.

Thus, last night, at approximately 10PM EST, December 1, 2010 a 24 hour termination notification email was sent to the email address associated with the wikileaks.org account. In addition to this email, notices were sent to Wikileaks via Twitter and the chat function available through the wikileaks.org website. Any downtime of the wikileaks.org website has resulted from its failure to use another hosted DNS service provider.

Update: EveryDNS has further clarified their position, with another statement at 11 AM EST:

First, let’s be clear, this is a difficult issue to deal with and there are opinions on all sides. Second, EveryDNS.net, the world’s largest free managed DNS provider, is not taking a position on the content hosted on the wikileaks.org or wikileaks.ch website, it is following established policies so as not to put any one EveryDNS.net user’s interests ahead of any others. Lastly, regardless of what people say about the actions of EveryDNS.net, we know this much is true – we believe in our New Hampshire state motto, Live Free or Die.

With that said:

EveryDNS.net is a free community-based service.

EveryDNS.net does not host content. The Domain Name System (DNS) service routes Internet traffic from domain names to IP addresses.

At 10PM EST, on Wednesday December 1, 2010 a 24-hour termination notification email was sent to the email address associated with the wikileaks.org account. In addition to this email, notices were sent to Wikileaks via Twitter and the chat function available through the wikileaks.org website.

Any downtime of the wikileaks.org website has resulted from its failure to, with plentiful advance notice, use another DNS solution.

Yesterday, pursuant to the EveryDNS.net Acceptable Use Policy the primary DNS hosted domains were disabled. Today, also in accordance with the EveryDNS.net Acceptable Use Policy, the secondary DNS hosted domains, including wikileaks.ch, were disabled.

EveryDNS.net is not taking a position on the content hosted on the wikileaks.org or wikileaks.ch website, it is following established policies. No one EveryDNS.net user has the right to put at risk, yesterday, today or tomorrow, the service that hundreds of thousands of other websites depend on.

The troubles continue for Wikileaks, which was booted from Amazon Web Services. Senator Lieberman has also introduced a legislation that would make it a federal crime for anyone to publish the name of a U.S. intelligence source.

For non-technical folks, DNS (Domain Name System) is the protocol used to translate friendly names on the Internet (wikileaks.org) to their numeric IP addresses. This means that Wikileaks still continues to own the domain “wikileaks.org”, but it’s not accessible through that name on the Internet.

So how do we know that you are not a government agent trying to get direct the blame away from the government and direct it towards some unknown bank?

Curious that you seem to have all this inside scoop and yet don’t know the name of the bank???

Guest

When the dust settles and everyone starts praising Wikileaks for the good it has done for the humanity there’ll be loads of businesses who’ll be making up stories about how they helped Wikileaks stay alive. But for now it seems the Wikileaks will have to fend for themselves.

If you read the material properly rather than just being an average stupid American, then you might have noticed that there was nothing that WikiLeaks did to violate the Terms of Use… In fact the opposite happened … they were at the receiving end of the DDoS, and there is nothing you can do about that as an end user, or an organization.

Fuck them? No fuck you, you ignorant fool. They’re exposing the US’s bullshit for our(the rest of the world) to laugh and cringe over … You guys are the conglomeration of everything that is wrong with this world and yet you stand defiantly supporting this bullshit, against a freedom of speach vehicle, that exposes how evil and corrupt the United Farse of America has become..

Brainless idiots that regurgitate main stream doctorine is reminisce of NAZI Germany… Are you a NAZI David? LOL I bet you are … HEIL OBAMA the puppet figurehead of the New FatherLand.